The idea for this thread occured when in the car park this morning with a work collegue who asked why I have;

A chainsaw
98 wine glasses
The Guiness book of records
20 rugby balls

All in the boot of my car

What is in you car “just hanging around” that might prowoke a need for an explanation?

A chainsaw
98 wine glasses
The Guiness book of records
20 rugby balls

I hope your explanation was a good one that’s classic serial killer material there!

A sheep.

That’s some niche juggling act that you’ve got going on there.

deer skull
polystyrene freezer box
aldi garden saw
cammo netting
painkillers

A packet of Tangfastics which to my certain knowledge, have been through the washing machine at least twice and the contents of which is now just one big fizzy glutinous lump.

A sort of megatangsoapfastic.

I actually ate a lump of it the other night.

Fifteen hundred profiteroles and a 2 gallons of chocolate sauce.

Dinosaurs

*searches nealglovers posting history for vehicle details and location

A wheel jig.

broken bluray player. dog hair. ball thrower and ball. dog lead.

Dinosaurs

not as out of place as the things under your bonnet though Molgrips!

I was going to post ‘waterlogged trailer control module’ but I pulled that out ages ago.

A shopping bag / trolley thing and 2 ikea bags full of toy babies

last week i had most of the interior decor of rustymacs house in mine 😀

this week i have a 2 tonne sling , a shovel , some shackles and a tarp – and an old steering rack rod end.

Eight blank magazines (5.56mm), a portable dog water bowl and a sleeping bag.

The contents of the front passenger footwell can best be described as “Litter bin”.

2 kites…

Many dried leaves [Applewood, usually, before you ask 😉 ]

Lots of dog hair
Dog water bowl
Debris from bushes that went to the tip last weekend
and under the boot floor.. high vis, tools, first aid kit etc.

J

Eight blank magazines

You want to get a refund on those.
All mine have got words and pictures and stuff in. 🙂

I’ve had a set of road mudguards in the void under the boot floor for about six months, and a fold up dog bowl (which leaks)

A body

£100’ish in coins
Two curtains

Safety kit, full face respirator, huuuuge bolt croppers, demolition saw, kevlar gloves, exiting microbiological solutions, pots of bits of person, a fat bike, riding kit and some firewood. Oh and large grey chest with secret testing stuff in that weighs about as much as average adult male chimpanzee

I have a wedding dress in my boot!

2 off – Sheet of cardboard to protect the boot liner from the bikes.
1 off – Old footwell mat to protect the bikes from each other and to stand on whilst changing out of muddy kit.
1 off – Haribo (open and covered in grit and fluff).
10 off – Tesco “Bags for Life”.
1 off – Pair of baggies.
1 off – Long sleeve cycling top.
87 off – Toes of my victims.

A kite, a beach cricket set and and an Avid bleed kit

A yoga mat and a poncho.

a victim

It’s not exactly unusual, the stuff in my boot… it’s just that occasionally it puts people off taking a lift when they see the rope, the shovel, the tarp, and the roll of old carpet.

Harry, can I have the toes please..I may have a use for them. Would you swap them for some fruit salad and black jack chews?

Harry, can I have the toes please..I may have a use for them. Would you swap them for some fruit salad and black jack chews?

No. I’m making soup with them.

I drove round with a brand new huge Axe in the boot for a month that I’d forgotten about (thanks STW’er Skiprat).

Then I realised what IF I’m pulled ‘so anything offensive in your car sir’.

Erm.

A net bag containing some rugby balls, some sports bibs and some cones.
A track pump.
Several plastic containers smeared with blackberry juice.
A dozen or more nitryl gloves.
Alcohol hand cleanser.
A small, very sharp knife.
Tufts of what appears to be rabbit fur.
A large pack of grime wipes.
Various cable ties.
Some partridge feathers.
Several empty .22 cases and a couple of spent 20 bore cartridges.
A copy of Benj Howarths West Yorks MTB route guide.
A bottle of Skin So Soft and some Autan with Deet.
Some blood stained matting.
A single cycling mitt. (Left)
Jump leads.
A Nite Force lamp.
A pair of Raybans (refugees from the 90s…. Square Metals)

trolley jack, 3 ft 1/2″ breaker bar and 17mm socket, jump leads, triangle, tow rope, oil, water, radweld, bulbs, wd40, blocks of wood for jack, ratchet straps, sprodgers (the elasticated things with hooks both ends for stopping bikes flapping about), plank (for motorbike) waterproof jacket, spare brake pads, spare glow plugs, a set of britool ratcheting spanners, some plastigauge, track pump, hi vis jacket.

@Jamie, was your car made by communist midlanders in the late 1970s?

Currently there’s 4 audi 16″x7 alloys rattling around the 500’s boot.

Mate of mine has his step dads ashes…. Been there for about 12 month.

Not really interesting but definitely rank.

A big lump of cheese from a bike trip 4 weeks ago (must remove that soon)
A packet of ham from same bike trip (daren’t open it)
2 Part baked baguettes
A bed sheet
A bivvy bag
An archive box lid (useful to stop annoying rattles against the windows from handlebars)

The missus got in the car last night and suggested that a valet deal on groupon might be a good idea, she hasn’t seen my desk…

Good friend of mine (female) uses the “what’s in your boot” question at speed dating events (she’s into that kind of thing). Replies will quickly sort the wheat from the chaff. Set of golf clubs – get lost. Muddy wellies/bike/dog/boots and you’re in there!

In the Beetle there is:
A sewing machine
A hockey stick
A book – The Cobra in the Barn
A CD – The Joshua Tree
A tin of shortbread

I am not even going to look in the Syncro!

In actual fact, there was a toy dinosaur in there for a while, now there is just a shitload of bags for life of all kinds. Enough to carry about ten trolleys worth of shopping, and way more than the car could carry if they were full.

Other than that it’s just oil, screenwash, spare bulbs, that kind of thing.